Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
05 May 2025
Early in my career, I rebuilt a wizard engine in a .NET WebForms app. It was dynamic, elegant, fast, and borderline indecipherable. It worked. But it didn’t live well. I’ve come to learn that the best code isn’t the most inventive. It’s the most understandable. Simple code invites collaboration. It survives context loss. It doesn’t need to be decoded six months later.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
28 Apr 2025
We had the developer. The timeline. The budget. What we didn’t have was a network that could handle an outsider. One week, six provisioning tickets, and an Office 365 license later, we gave up. Not because the work wasn’t needed, but because our infrastructure couldn’t flex. That project should’ve been a win. Instead, it became a lesson.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
21 Apr 2025
Too many teams chase perfection and stall out. They wait for the cleanest implementation, the most elegant abstraction, the ideal architecture. Only to watch the feature miss its moment. But the truth is, the only code that matters is the code that ships.